Families of eight people who did not evacuate during mandatory order are working with authorities to locate their loved ones, as the fire has consumed 53 homes and 6,200 acres so far | VIDEO

EXCLUSIVE: After a year of setbacks, U.N. Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and his top lieutenants spend their weekend at a remote retreat, discussing ways to put their organization in charge of the world's agenda

During a campaign-style speech in Cleveland, the president takes aim at Ohio Republican John Boehner, ridiculing a speech he gave last month by saying it offered 'no new policies.' | FULL COVERAGE: AEHQ

An Iowa school district's lunch program asks children to memorize a four-digit PIN code so it can monitor what they eat in the school cafeteria — prompting some parents to claim it's an unhealthy case of 'Big Brother'

President Obama opened the post-Labor Day stretch of the midterm campaign by blasting the GOP and pushing a new $350 billion plan to lift the sagging economy.

Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that the "Cuban model" no longer works, an apparent admission of failings in the communist economic model introduced by his revolution more than 50 years ago.

At least 54 homes have been destroyed by a wildfire burning west of Boulder, Colorado, and eight people are unaccounted for, officials say.

An internal investigation puts some responsibility for the Gulf oil disaster on BP but assigns much of the blame to contractors Halliburton and Transocean.

A small asteroid passed within the moon's distance from the Earth on Wednesday morning, and another will do likewise later in the day, space watchers say.